There are always going to be opinions, and many things are up for debate. This includes how you raise your children and as a parent, you will have to make decisions that will guide them from their youth onward.
That being said, there are many times when these opinions are not going to be very popular with others. They are still your children, so you get to make some choices and if you choose to share those choices, you can expect a debate.
Undoubtedly, Sarah Jedd has experienced this for herself. She is a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin and she has a popular blog. Recently, she wrote a blog post about why she allows her children have all of the hollowing candy they want.
Let’s just say that not everybody was happy with her opinion.
According to the New York Post, she said: “I got a lot of negative feedback, especially from the [publication’s] Facebook page, saying that’s terrible. They said [kids’] teeth are going to rot.”
As a mother of five children, she has had plenty of experience and undoubtedly, she uses that experience to make some of her decisions. It seems as if when she allows her children all of the access they want to Halloween candy, they end up eating less of it because they get tired of it.
She said that she thinks kids are intuitive eaters, and this has been something they have always done. She feels the children have the ability to know what is good for them.
Then again, she says that a lot of her friends aren’t in agreement. Some of them donate the children’s candy and others give it to their children one piece of the time.
According to the Audacy, Carol Danaher, a registered dietitian who works for the Ellyn Satter Institute, said: “A parent has to trust that the kid is driven by their own needs and will.”
She goes on to say that Halloween is a special day that is meant for the children to enjoy. “If they are restricted from sweet food or there’s guilt around them, the child will crave them more and they won’t have their natural limits.”
According to thew New York Post, Haley Schiech (founder of family healthfood blog My Superhero Foods) is one mother who disagrees, saying that she isn’t extreme where she doesn’t let them participate but she does give the children a piece or two of candy at night rather than giving them complete access to the candy.
And the debate rages on.